{"id":11708,"date":"2023-06-03T01:16:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T19:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11708"},"modified":"2025-03-30T04:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T23:29:14","slug":"what-is-da-vinci-robotic-surgical-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-da-vinci-robotic-surgical-system\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Da Vinci Robotic Surgical System?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Da Vinci Robotic Surgical System:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It is a tool<\/strong> that <strong>helps surgeons perform a variety of surgeries<\/strong> including gynecological surgeries, urological, head and neck, thoracic, colorectal, cardiac and general surgeries.<\/li>\n<li>Because the <strong>da Vinci only uses small cuts<\/strong>, it\u2019s <strong>less traumatic on your body<\/strong>, resulting in <strong>less pain, fewer complications<\/strong> and a <strong>shorter recovery time.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It can be <strong>used in the field of colorectal surgeries, urology, oncology, gynaecology thoracic<\/strong>, cardiology, paediatric and gastro-intestinal surgeries, kidney transplants and in liver transplantation.<\/li>\n<li>The machine is <strong>made up of three different parts<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The console\/control center: <\/strong>The <strong>surgeon operates while seated at a console unit<\/strong>, using hand and foot controls and with a magnified, 3D, high-definition view.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The patient cart: <\/strong>The cart <strong>holds surgical instruments and the camera<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The vision cart:<\/strong> This cart <strong>has a video screen so that the healthcare providers<\/strong> in the room <strong>can see what\u2019s happening during the surgery<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is a Da Vinci surgery?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A Da Vinci surgery is <strong>when your surgery is performed using the da Vinci Surgical System<\/strong>, a <strong>machine that uses four thin robotic arms<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The robotic instruments have a <strong>wider range of motion than the human hand<\/strong>. Surgeons <strong>can use the surgical system for a variety of procedures.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What\u2019s the difference between a da Vinci surgery and an open surgery?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Use of the da Vinci system <strong>makes your surgery \u201cminimally invasive\u201d (smaller incisions).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The procedure uses <strong>small cuts<\/strong> (less than or equal to 1 centimeter long), <strong>tiny surgical instruments, fewer stitches and a laparoscope<\/strong> (a telescope) which is a thin tube with a light and a camera lens.<\/li>\n<li>This is <strong>different than traditional surgeries that use larger, more invasive cuts<\/strong> through skin, tissues and muscles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is a Da Vinci surgery?<\/h3>\n<p>A Da Vinci surgery is when your surgery is performed using the da Vinci Surgical System, a machine that uses four thin robotic arms. The robotic instruments have a wider range of motion than the human hand. Surgeons can use the surgical system for a variety of procedures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofhealthcare.org\/pressrelease.php?id=206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Apollo Hospitals Ahmedabad &amp; Da Vinci Xi join hands to offer the Most Advanced Robot Assisted Surgeries<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Da Vinci Robotic Surgical System is a tool that helps surgeons perform a variety of surgeries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}